Suspected hit-and-run driver arrested

Milwaukee police have made an arrest in a hit-and-run that killed an 18-month-old girl late Wednesday afternoon.

Police said they believe a 24-year-old man was driving a U-Haul rental truck that struck the girl and her mother as they were crossing South Sixth Street at Hayes Avenue.

The suspect was found at his home on Milwaukee's north side Thursday night.

The medical examiner identified the girl as 18-month-old Erieanna Matousek. Her mother, who survived the crash, is Cheyenne Jackson. They had just gotten off a Milwaukee County bus.

Witness Luis Beltran said the driver drove away in the rental truck and a neighbor was able to track him.

"He followed him all the way up to Oklahoma, Seventh and Oklahoma, where he said he parked and then he told us where he parked at, and so we sent him back over there to get the license plate, and I guess they got a hold of him," Beltran said.

Todd Gross lives a block from the scene. He said he doesn't know the mother and didn't know her daughter, but it still breaks his heart.

"For a little girl to get her life taken away, you know, by a car, and then for the man to take off, I mean, it's incredible," Gross said.

Funeral arrangements are being made for Erieanna.

Jackson is left walking with a cane and a broken heart.

"Thank you for the support. I don't know what else to say, I just miss my baby," Jackson said.